Welcome
to our website on Alinskyian Community
Organizing. Our focus is on how it has interacted with the Catholic
Church and Catholic Social Doctrine, however it is not limited to
that. Much of the material is about the political nature of community
organizing and how it has negatively impacted and influenced the church and
nation.

The purpose of this website is to fight the encroachment
of the Industrial Areas Foundation (in the form of VOICE, formerly the
Oklahoma Sponsoring Committee) into the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and
throughout the United States and the World. We believe their goals
(and those of all Alinskyian community organizers) are antithetical to the
teachings of the Catholic Church, and that their actions will in the long
run harm the very people that the IAF purports to help.

We welcome you to explore the
many pages and lnks here. Below are some of the latest things we
have come across, followed by "Key Information" which gives you a primer on
our struggle here in Oklahoma and on community organizing in general.

"It is the duty of pastors to listen carefully and
with an open heart to laymen and repeatedly to engage in a living dialogue
with them. For each and every layman has been given his own gifts and charisms, and more often than not has greater experience than the clergy in
daily life in the world." Leon-Joseph Cardinal Suenens,
Belgen Prelate, Vatican 2 Council.

New Links

If you want to get a quick lesson on Alinsky and
community organizing then watch
"A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing," an EWTN original documentary about Saul Alinsky.

A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING - A WOLF IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING

A look back on the life, ideals, and works of 1960s community
activist, Saul Alinsky, through the lens of a Catholic
perspective.

This letter was
written by one of the individuals who initially brought the Industrial
Areas Foundation (IAF) into Oklahoma. It
addresses many issues and builds a case of support for
community organizing. It was intended to address the concerns of the
parishioners about the IAF.

Our response to the above
letter in which we addressed each claim on a point by point basis.
As will be obvious from reading our letter, their
letter did nothing to address our concerns, rather, it inflamed them and
stiffened our resolve to stop the IAF. No rebuttal of any of the
points we made in this letter was ever received.

She
spoke at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond on Saturday, October
10, 2009. Still valid today, it's some of the best information we have
seen on the subject. A DVD
is available upon request.

"It
may well require that we put away half-measures. We cannot hope to renew
society if society cannot detect a difference in the way Catholics marry,
raise their families, conduct their businesses or serve in government. In
other words, we can never hope to renew society unless we ourselves are
committed to renewal in our own lives. And we can never hope to renew
society as long as we find ways to accommodate social values that are
fundamentally opposed to the values of the Gospel."

Carl Anderson,
Supreme Knight, Knights of Columbus

In a nutshell,
Community Organizing is a method for people to join together to gain power
for the attainment of mutual goals in their neighborhood, city, etc. This
sounds like a wonderful idea. Unfortunately, most community organizers hold
to a "progressive" political ideology that is considerably "left of center",
and have brought their politics into the church.

We believe that the
leaders of the Catholic Church
in America (bishops, cardinals, and priests)
have been assaulted (and in some cases co-opted) by politicians and
secularists, and have compromised on many issues that have negatively
affected our Church and our Country. When Catholic institutions, or
politicians who claim to be Catholic, openly embrace positions contrary to
the Church's teachings millions are left confused as to what the truth is.
The Catholic Church must hold to the Truth. The Truth must be found and
told. We will strive to attain the Truth to our dying breath. We will be
supportive of our Church and Her hierarchy, and we will pray for Her, for
God's guidance to those on both sides of this issue, and for our country.
Please join us in prayer and in taking a stand on this issue.

We believe it
is not only our right to bring up our concerns, but also our duty per the
Code of Canon Law.

Can. 212
"1. Conscious of their own responsibility, the Christian faithful are
bound to follow with Christian obedience those things which the sacred
pastors, inasmuch as they represent Christ, declare as teachers of the
faith or establish as rulers of the Church.

"2. The
Christian faithful are free to make known to the pastors of the Church
their needs, especially spiritual ones, and their desires.

"3.
According to the knowledge, competence, and prestige which they possess,
they have the right and even at times the duty to manifest to the sacred
pastors their opinion on matters which pertain to the good of the Church
and to make their opinion known to the rest of the Christian faithful,
without prejudice to the integrity of faith and morals, with reverence
toward their pastors, and attentive to common advantage and the dignity
of persons. http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__PU.HTM

Ricky & Jo
Joyce

We are
members of the Catholic Media Coalition.

Last Updated:
Monday, October 03, 2016 09:37 PM -0500

24 But Jesus would not trust himself to them
because he knew them all,25 and did not need anyone to testify about
human nature. He himself understood it well. Jn 2:24-25

"Finally, may priests be careful not to
give themselves totally to activism and exterior works of their ministry. By
acting with such imprudent behavior, by slowly impoverishing the soul, one
is incapable of working for the good of the parish and of the diocese. This
also causes grave detriment to the vocations to the priesthood. For how will
young men understand the seriousness of the priestly office if they do not
see in priests an example of perfection which they may want to imitate? For
which priests must remember, in order to give example of perfect behavior,
that the most important activities in their mission are: [1] to offer the
Sacrifice of the Altar worthily; [2] to announce the word of God; [3] to
give the Sacraments; [4] to be near the infirm, particularly the dying; [5]
to teach the faith to the ignorant. All the rest that is not pertinent to
these activities must be put aside or, at most, tolerated."

Saint Pope John XXIII

"I condemn
no other man's conscience: their conscience may save them, and mine must
save me. We should remember, in all the controversies in which we engage, to
treat our opponents as if they were acting in good faith, even if they seem
to us to be acting out of spite or self-interest."Saint John Fisher
(1469-1535) Bishop, martyr, Memorial Day June 22

Love truth; show yourself as you
are, without pretenses and fears and without ceremonies. And if the truth
causes you persecution accept it, and if it causes some torment, bear it and
if for truth"s sake you should sacrifice your self and your life be strong
in your sacrifice.

- Saint Joseph Moscati (1880-1927) Feast Day April 12

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word on something that we hope we can all share in, no matter our
disagreements in other areas.

Blessed Virgin Mary, Pray for
Us.

We hope and pray that those on both sides of this issue will pray for each
other and, despite high emotions, maintain Christian charity towards each
other. None of us knows what is in the others' hearts. We
believe that the people we know personally at our parish, who are on the other side of the
issue from us, are among the best Christians and best human beings we know.
We especially hope and pray that all of us on either side will pray for our
priests and the Archbishop, and although we may disagree or be disappointed
in their actions or decisions, treat them with love and respect.

We encourage everyone to attend mass often and to pray for the guidance of
the Holy Spirit.

The Battle Belongs to the Lord

2﻿ The LORD said to Gideon, "You have too
many soldiers with you for me to deliver Midian into their power, lest
Israel vaunt itself against me and say, "My own power brought me the
victory."

﻿3﻿ Now proclaim to all the soldiers,
"If
anyone is afraid or fearful, let him leave."" When Gideon put them to this
test on the mountain, twenty-two thousand of the soldiers left, but ten
thousand remained.

﻿4﻿ The LORD said to Gideon,
"There are still too many soldiers. Lead them down to the water and I will
test them for you there. If I tell you that a certain man is to go with you,
he must go with you. But no one is to go if I tell you he must not."

﻿5﻿ When Gideon led the soldiers down
to the water, the LORD said to him, "You shall set to one side everyone who
laps up the water as a dog does with its tongue; to the other, everyone who
kneels down to drink."

﻿6﻿ Those who lapped up the water raised
to their mouths by hand numbered three hundred, but all the rest of the
soldiers knelt down to drink the water.

﻿7﻿ The LORD said to Gideon,
"By means of
the three hundred who lapped up the water I will save you and will deliver Midian
into your power. So let all the other soldiers go home."

﻿8﻿ Their horns, and such supplies as the
soldiers had with them, were taken up, and Gideon ordered the rest of the
Israelites to their tents, but kept the three hundred men. Now the camp of
Midian was beneath him in the valley.

﻿9﻿ That night the LORD said to Gideon,
"Go, descend on the camp, for I have delivered it up to you.

Judges 7:2-9

As Gideon was told by God
that he did not need so many soldiers, we will trust in the Lord, not in
"power" or numbers.

"The world would have peace if only men of politics
would follow the Gospels."